Re: BSD licence

[Bruno Patri <bruno.patri@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 04 July 2008 17:19:56 Danilo Šegan wrote:
> Hi Bruno,

Hi,

> Yesterday at 14:13, Bruno Patri wrote:
> > On Thursday 03 July 2008 12:51:33 you wrote:
> >> Hi Bruno,
> >>
> >> On Tuesday at 18:53, Bruno Patri wrote:
> >> > In my opinion, it's just the opposite, BSD is worse than the FSF
> >> > disclaimer.
> >> >
> >> > http://translationproject.org/disclaim.txt
> >> > "I disclaim all
> >> > copyright interest in my works, which consist of translation of
> >> > portions of free software programs from one human language to another
> >> > human language,
> >>
> >> This ("I disclaim...") means that you are putting your translations in
> >> public domain.
> >
> > This means that the work ""that i have provided"" to FSF is Not
> > copyrighted (FSF documentation is very clear about this, public domain
> > means not copyrighted) It doesn't mean that this work is going to be
> > published in public domain.
>
> Ok, public domain == not copyrighted, and it's all already published
> on translationproject.org.  Nobody needs a license to use public
> domain stuff.

That's right, but it seems that all .po files avaible on TP have a copyright 
header...

[snip]

> I believe that Benno Schulenberg (who is currently running Translation
> Project, and who has actually revitalised it, so I trust he knows what
> he's talking about) has already responded confirming that you are in
> fact putting your PO files into public domain.



These license issues are quite complex and it was important for me to read 
different opinions about that. I didn't know that Benno Schulenberg was in the 
TP and it gives much weight to his answer ;-)


> I'd like to help convince you we are not planning on doing any harm.

I'm sure of that ;-)
I just want to be sure to understand Launchpad choices. I have no problem for 
my own work, to publish it under BSD licence or even in public domain , but I 
need to be able to explain these choices to our team members.

-- 
Bruno